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To say nothing of the divine law, on mere worldly grounds it is plain that nothing is more conducive to the health, intelligence, comfort, and independence of the working classes, and to our prosperity as a people, than our Sabbath.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
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Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
The universe seems silent and unmoving, yet its natural functions never cease. The sun and moon hurry along day and night, yet their brightness never diminishes. By the same token, the noble person is alert while at leisure, and makes time for tasteful pursuits when busy with duties.
A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings. (Used to make a point that one learns better from their mistakes or misfortunes rather than the advice of others.)
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Much Ado About Nothing, Act ii, Scene 3
A kind heart he hath. A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii, Scene 4
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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible!
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A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a. A Winter’s Tale, Act iv, Scene 3
Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth; but either it was different in blood . . . Or else misgraffed in respect of years . . . Or else it stood upon the choice of friends. . . Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, war, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, making it momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream brief as the lightning in the collied night, that, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, and ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' the jaws of darkness do devour it up: so quick bright things come to confusion. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Scene 1
As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, as procurator to your excellence, to marry Princess Margaret for your grace, so, in the famous ancient city Tours, in presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, the Dukes of Orleans, Calabar, Bretagne, and Alencon, seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops, I have performed my mask and was espoused. Henry VI, Act I, Scene 1
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